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‘I want to work in dementia care’

Catharine Sadler

Trusted family help

Erin Dean

Patient’s Choice Award

Supporting Carers Award

RCN Healthcare Assistant Award

Nursing Older People Award

Mental Health Practice Award

Learning Disability Nursing Award

Leadership Award

Innovations in your Specialty Award

Excellence in Cancer Research Award

Community Nursing Award

Child Health Award

Cancer Nursing Award

Bank Nurse Award

Andrew Parker Student Nurse Award in association with the RCN Fellows

Welcome to the RCNi Nurse Awards 2016

Judges

Agitation in patients

Peena Kavarana

Understanding reflective practice

Jacqueline Sian Nicol, Isabel Dosser

How to remove an endotracheal tube

Nicola Credland

Tweets of the week

From Facebook

Lauren McGregor, Margaret Coyle, Clare Hogan

The life project book review – A correction

Donato Tallo

Free online educational resources available to all

Lynn Reid

Come on RCN – What’s your position on the EU referendum?

Mike Travis

I don’t need a degree to know how to be a good nurse

Linda Foster

Government rhetoric on NHS staffing does not match reality

Karen Chilver, Deborah Harrington

As a profession we’re ‘light years’ away from being research based

James P Smith

The best of the week’s health-related TV and radio

Margaret Paul

Read: Personalized Medical & Scientific Journal app

Layla Haidrani

Managing Long-term Conditions and Chronic Illness in Primary Care (Second edition)

Anita McBride

Coping with a Mental Health Crisis

Charley Baker

Understanding Health Policy (Second edition)

Lindsey J Hayes

Starting out - Standards set in our code were with me every day of my first placement

Myk Mulreany

Medicines management

Matt Griffiths

Readers’ panel - Whatever makes you happy

Steve Flatt, Sarah Louise Loughran, Liz Charalambous, Craig Hopkins

Round in circles

David Newnham

Out in the cold

Jane Bates

‘The end of my world’

Katherine French, Jane Price

Voices - Seeing NHS care through a patient’s eyes made me proud, says Yvonne Coghill

Yvonne Coghill

New guidance targets MND

Lynne Pearce

Welcome to our NHS trust

Alison Moore

Chronic wounds dressing

Hospital admissions fall after transitional care by clinical nurse specialists

Type 1 diabetes could be a risk factor for development of epilepsy in children

Spanish survey of overweight workers shows many are ‘metabolically healthy’

Scans on babies born with microcephaly find brain damage linked to Zika

Cognitive impairment can be a problem for people with Parkinson’s

Overseas recruits’ English exam: a proper safety check or red tape?

Petra Kendall-Raynor

News in brief

Meningitis B vaccine will not be extended to all under-11s

Network promotes midwife-led units

Looked after children’s mental health needs are being ignored

Linsey Wynton

Early warning system detects catheter-related urinary infections

Employers treat apprentices as cheap labour, says union

Revalidation? It’s easier than you think, says nursing head of Unison

Alistair Kleebauer

Unison will fight health-related benefit sanctions

Hospital nurses survive on diet of fast food

Safe staffing worries prompt calls for a sustainable NHS workforce plan

Homes nurses can afford should be next London mayor’s priority

Call immediate halt to your student loans plan, RCN urges government

Alistair Kleebauer

Politicians must commit to affordable homes

Graham Scott